Regional Issues Quotes

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

Saddam was a bad guy. Assad's a bad guy. Nobody's denying that.

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

I compare the Middle East to a big condominium, we called shared residence? Well, you have many families that you don't like; some of them are bad families. But, unlike in a condominium, you are doomed to be with your neighbors; a person cannot choose his parents, and a nation cannot choose its neighbors, they were both there. One of them which happened to be quite problematic, short of perfect, called the Palestinians. So we have problems with them.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

The only real growth industry in the Middle East has been population.

I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

I worked for 'The Chronicle' in San Francisco, and immigration is a big issue in that region.

One of the issues that differentiates union members in Texas and the Northeast is guns. That's a big issue.

We have to see the sufferings of Punjab and focus ourselves to address them.

I have said many times that I wish there was no oil in the Middle East, and more water. People would have been much happier than they are right now.

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

We have had enough of meetings for meetings’ sake in the Middle East.

The Internet Governance Forum - which brings together NGOs, government officials and companies - needs to do a better job of including representatives from Africa, Latin America, and Asia and addressing their issues.

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

Every region in the world faces challenges - and Africa is hugely diverse, so its own challenges are varied.

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

I feel Delhi always has a problem in understanding different regions and cultures.

Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region.

If you go around Colombia or Latin America, without doubt you will find that 80 per cent of the time, you're discussing the past and only 20 per cent about the future.

If the popular vote elected the president today, two states - California and New York - would be all you would need. And that means campaigns would occur only there and campaigns would focus only on issues relevant to those people in those states.

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.